Act Quotes

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

You have to be quite stupid to act.

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

I want to show audiences I can act.

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.

Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.